Tuesday 07 May 2019 Newborn babies in Tanzania die at a rate of 40 per 1000, a shocking 4% of all births. INFANT PI, Dr Deirdre Murray is raising money to send experienced nurses and doctors from Cork University Hospital to spend time with the staff in Kilimanjaro and to work with them to provide [...]
Monday 15 April 2019 Launched today pregnancyandinfantloss.ie is a first-of-its-kind website for Ireland. A valuable resource for parents who experience pregnancy loss or perinatal death, the website provides accurate and accessible information on a sensitive and often stigmatised subject, shares the latest research into the causes of baby loss, promotes emotional well-being, and offers details on how to access [...]
Monday 01 April 2019 The British Nutrition Foundation (BNF) has announced the recipients of the 2019 BNF Drummond Early Career Scientist Award – recognising early career excellence in nutrition science. Our postdoctoral researcher Dr Elaine McCarthy received the runner-up title. Elaine has been recognised for her work in the field of paediatric and neonatal nutrition, [...]
Tuesday 19 March 2019 Congratulations to our PhD researcher Gillian Maher who was selected for the Pfizer-SRI President's Presenter's Award. She received the award at the Society for Reproductive Investigation (SRI) 66th Annual Scientific Meeting in Paris, last week. Gillian's presentation at the meeting was titled 'Association between Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy and Autism Spectrum Disorder: A [...]
Pregnancy loss, in the form of early or late miscarriage, or stillbirth, neonatal or infant death, occurs in 20-25% of pregnancies and is the most common complication of pregnancy. Dealing with the loss of a baby or pregnancy is a very difficult time for parents and families and providing bereavement care is an integral part [...]
Monday 04 March 2019 The INFANT centre is made up of world-leading researchers from a variety of disciplines. Our engineers are involved in various research projects and their highly acclaimed work has been widely recognised. Our engineers are working collaboratively with a number of academic and industry partners from all over the world to improve the [...]
Friday 01 March 2019 Held annually in over 30 countries across the globe, FameLab is the world's largest science communication competition. The Cork event took place at Triskel Arts Centre on Wednesday night. Armed only with their wits and a few props, the newest voices from the world of science and engineering across the county [...]
Thursday 28 February 2019 A team from INFANT travel to Kilimanjaro Clinical Research Institute in Moshi, Northern Tanzania this week. As Ireland’s first and only perinatal research centre, INFANT is focussed on making pregnancy safer and improving health outcomes for mothers and babies worldwide. In particular, the centre’s Global Health Program is committed to translating [...]
Tuesday 19 February 2019 This week, INFANT Director and Associate Investigators presented at ‘The Future of Machine Learning’ Conference at the Maryborough Hotel, Cork. The event organised by MIDAS, in conjunction with Qualcomm and UCC brought together experts in the field of artificial intelligence and machine learning to encourage collaboration and innovation that leverages machine learning in Ireland. The [...]
Monday 04 February 2019 Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation, Heather Humphreys TD, and Minister for Training, Skills, Innovation, Research and Development, John Halligan TD, today announced €4.5 million in funding for 38 research projects to support the commercialisation of government-funded research. The funding is provided through Science Foundation Ireland’s Technology Innovation Development Award (TIDA) programme, which [...]